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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?
(a) Entertainers.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) The Insane.
(d) The Homeless.

2. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?
(a) She thought she was going to be a nanny.
(b) She was wrongfully held by pimps until her father pays a hostage fee.
(c) She thought she was going to get married.
(d) She was kidnapped into prostitution.

3. How many were professors and artists?
(a) 18,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 22,000
(d) 45,000.

4. On the average, how many tracts did each person accept when they were being handed out?
(a) 1 or 2.
(b) None.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?
(a) Stay honest even when starving.
(b) Do nothing.
(c) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(d) Justify their criminal behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the puppeteer leave his former job to become a puppeteer?

2. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?

3. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?

4. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?

5. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Halliday say were swindlers?

2. How many visits were done by the London City Mission and what were the results of those visits?

3. How did the fire eater Mayhew interviewed become one and what was his early life like?

4. What was the photographer's business like according to Mayhew?

5. What was the purpose of the mission?

6. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

7. Who did Mayhew call street folk?

8. How prevalent was theft, where did it often occur and how did a thief make money on stolen goods?

9. What did the London City Mission do?

10. What kind of education did many of the street folk have, what types of families did many of them come from and how did many of them start out?

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